On the Move: A Life
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Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks
2015

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100 books

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Anamaria
Anamaria Vere
Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir
In Memory of Memory
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez
Hellfire
The Shadow King
The Butterfly's Burden

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14 books

All Time Favorites

Mnemonic-reads
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
On the Move: A Life
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Wintering
The Monsters of Templeton
Lolita

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627 books

Audiolist

Hypothalamusic
Keiko C
Vittorio, The Vampire
Everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
Transcendence
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
The Best of Me

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285 books

Owned

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The People of Paper
House of Leaves
Cloud Atlas
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The Complete Cosmicomics
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Understanding Comics

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155 books

Biography

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Henry Clay
Eisenhower: in War and Peace
Grant
On the Move: A Life
Chronicles: Volume One
Wishful Drinking
Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

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22 books

Earlymedica

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The Circadian Code
The Secret Pulse of Time
The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
4000 Weeks
On the Move: A Life

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1,497 books

Non Fiction

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Mer Barr
When God Was a Woman
The Red Queen
Diplomacy
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

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219 books

Memoir

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Mer Barr
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
McCarthy's Bar
Born in Tibet
Life Itself: A Memoir
Wonderful Tonight

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16 books

Psychology

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David Griver
The Art of Loving
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Consciousness Explained
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

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5 books

Neuroscience

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David Griver
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
The Mind Illuminated
The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
On the Move: A Life

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3 books

Psychiatry

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David Griver
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
On the Move: A Life

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5 books

Travels

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David Griver
Seven Years in Tibet
On the Move: A Life
In A Sunburned Country
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
Last Chance to See

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6 books

Autobiography

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David Griver
On the Move: A Life
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
When Breath Becomes Air
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Going Solo
Boy

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28 books

Biography

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Alex
Genius
Steve Jobs
I. Asimov
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

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63 books

To Read 2016

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Tao Te Ching
On the Move: A Life
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
Understanding exposure

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725 books

Interesting To Check

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Marie Claude Gagnon
Celui qui reste
I Let You Go
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
The English Patient
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
The Golden Compass
The High Mountains of Portugal

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104 books

Nonfic

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The Purple Diaries : Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
Last Days of Roger Federer
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
Sounds Fake But Okay
When Books Went to War
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
Dreamer of Dune

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24 books

Memoir

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Mark Schiffer
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Novelist as a Vocation
Dreamer of Dune
Crying in H Mart
The Creative Gene
Vacationland

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11 books

Bio

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Mark Schiffer
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
Mike Nichols: A Life
Dreamer of Dune
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
James Tiptree, Jr.
Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed

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6 books

Queer

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Mark Schiffer
The Call-Out
Hawk Mountain
Empty Theatre: A Novel
Boys Weekend
Looking Glass Sound
On the Move: A Life

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511 books

Non Fiction

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Eugene Wilder
Where Men Win Glory
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Eating Animals
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Way We Eat
The Rest Is Noise

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21 books

Memoir

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A Box of Matches
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Ball Four
Bringing Out the Dead
Notes - On the Making of Apocalypse Now
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

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6 books

Abandoned

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The First Chronicles Of Prydain
Plainsong
The Corrections
A Tale of Two Cities
Lost in the Cosmos
On the Move: A Life

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93 books

Medicine

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Jarrad Maiers
In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine
The Debt Trap
Children Under Fire: An American Crisis
Pathologies of Power
Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms U.S. Health Care

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336 books

Currently On Hold

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Court
Patience
Self Comes to Mind
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships
Prince of Stories
Shelf Life
One Thousand and One Nights
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